Can emergency medicine residents reliably use the internet to answer clinical questions?

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 442-447

  Krause, Richard ^a   Moscati, Ronald ^a   Halpern, Shravanti ^a   Schwartz, Diane G ^b   Abbas, June ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

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EID: 81255163602     PISSN: 1936900X     EISSN: 19369018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2010.9.1895     Document Type: Article

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